Moren said:
Not to sound like a broken record, but this is yet another clickbait unfair characterization of Biden. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-biden-nytimes-interview.html "And you may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America. And at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- — close to a billionaire — who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know the —— CW: Like video games. Yeah, video games. And I was lectured by one of the senior leaders there that by saying if I insisted on what Leahy’d put together and we were, I thought we were going to fully support, that they would blow up the network, figuratively speaking. Have everybody contact. They get out and go out and contact the switchboard, just blow it up. And then one of these righteous people said to me that, you know, “We are the economic engine of America. We are the ones.” And fortunately I had done a little homework before I went and I said, you know, I find it fascinating. As I added up the seven outfits, everyone’s there but Microsoft. I said, you have fewer people on your payroll than all the losses that General Motors just faced in the last quarter, of employees. So don’t lecture me about how you’ve created all this employment." The "creeps" was a table full of Silicon Valley billionaires. |
Yeah, you do sound like a broken record. Always apologizing for Biden and claiming bias, just like you accuse Bernie fans of doing.
From the article:
As for which game executive Biden was referring to as a creep, Kotaku has some theories about who the person might be, including EA's then-CEO John Riccitiello.
Also from the article:
Biden has expressed his distaste for video games in the past. During 2013, while he was vice president, he proposed an additional tax on violent media, including violent games. Despite numerous studies showing no link between violent video games and real-life violent crimes, we've seen several politicians suggesting extra taxes be added to the titles.
